Hello all, Just a quick one as we don't have long before the campsite reception shuts. We are staying in a town called '1770' named, imaginatively, after the year Captain Cook first landed here. Had the whole long beautiful beach to ourselves this afternoon which was relaxing as we have done quite a lot of driving in the last few days. The sailing trip around the Whitsundays was amazing, great snorkelling, food and a beautiful boat! Hope everything is well with...

G'day! We're now at Airlie Beach in Queensland and about to go out for our second sailing trip to the Great Barrier Reef. We did a trip out of Cairns too but Alex was so excited about the campervan he forgot to write about it in the last blog! It was a great trip called Passions of Paradise, just for a day but wonderful snorkelling and Alex did a half hour scuba dive too and saw a shark!! Did some wonderful swimming in rock pools at the Jourama Falls, had the wh...

Well we made it - the campervan is a giant, but we've got it to our second campsite as we work our way down Queensland. When we came to pick up the camper in Cairns we found they'd given us an upgrade so instead of getting our "cheapa camper", we've been given a brand new VW Tourer. It's a bit bigger and has a few more modern conveniences including an automatic gearbox, which makes handling the thing much easier, but it is a biggy, well it's by far the ...

G'day! We are now in Carins, well Clifton Beach actually which is about 20mins drive from the city centre but counts as the Cairns area. We booked our appartment online last minute from Darwin and paid $90 a night but have been bumped up to a beach front appartment that is normally $130! It is bigger than our house at home and has a pool, BBQ, washing machine, dishwasher and is practically on the beach! Wonderful! And it is nice to have more than a couple of nigh...